On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 23:49 +0200, Simon Matter wrote: > I'm not a fan of running anything that needs good performance on any > kind > of virtualization. At least you me really check that you get good IO > performance out of it. FWIW, building from source on RHEL 5 on a Xen DomU with 6 cores and 2GB memory, currently delivering around 150msgs/sec via postal to ~350k accounts (via LDAP). Storage is all "Xen phy:" storage to a EMC DMX (metadata) and IBM 4700 (SATA, mail storage), 6 LUNs of each. I'm pretty happy with those numbers. Raw hardware would of course be better, but I find the overhead of Xen to be worthwhile. John -- John Madden Sr UNIX Systems Engineer Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html